Folks have often asked us what we do for guard animals? Llamas? You mean larger camelids that don’t produce an alpaca cria? Uh, no. We’re an alpaca farm. LGDs? While we gave it some thought over the years, the idea of having something on the farm that could bite our kids far outweighed (read: was…
When there are 6 of them cushed right up against another breeding! This shot was taken yesterday @5PM at the CCNF Arena. Unfortunately for Precocious (the lucky Herdsire in this particular instance) only one of the others is slated for him in the coming days. I’m sure it’s an ego boost just the same though…
Jen Lutz and CCNF Herd Manager Kim McAllister do an early ultra sound to find out if the boys are actually worth as much as we all claim! In this particular case it turned out the male in question was nothing but fluffed-up, over-hyped hot air.
That’s good friend Pat Badger of Alpaca Grove and Extreme fame this morning @10AM “supervising” a drive-by breeding of his female with Royal Ring of Fire (whom he co owns with us). The attempted making of Space Cowboy 2.0 went off with out a hitch…
I’m still learning how this whole blog thing works but if you click on the link at the bottom of this post you can see a cool Quicktime video of Jen and Kimberly herding a large group of our females up the hillside to the Arena for herd health day. Admittedly this was from June…
Though I try to stay away as much as possible (“geez honey, I really need to take those females down to VA/PA/NY/ME/OH”) when herd health days come around, today I am officially out of luck. Have Ivomec, can party. On the plus side: at least it’s not a toenail month (every other month) so we…
